Speaking about the movie The Physician, it is essential to note that its plot is more educational than entertaining. It tells the story of a young man, Robert Cole, who wants to study medicine after his mother dies of appendicitis. The audience can see a similar plot in the movie Bathory. Due to a lack of knowledge and skills, Countess Bathory also tries to study the effect of blood on the regeneration of the skin to become eternally young.
Viewers can indicate a similar plot with The Physician in the film The 13th Warrior. A refined aristocrat is sent as an envoy of the civilized East to the wild North. He goes through incredible physical and mental changes to eventually achieve his goal and return home to the East. There is an epic hero whose actions are watched by the audience through the screens in many films related to historical and adventure themes. For example, in the movie Escape, the main character takes all the steps to escape from the bloodthirsty robbers who take her captive. This film is comparable to The Physician, as it shows the moral and physical cruelty, the inevitability of fate, and the fact that a person learns from his experience.
There are many films united by the theme of the Black Death-the Plague, starting with historical films, and ending with adventure and fantasy. Such films are Black death, as well as Season of the Witch, and The Reckoning. Each of these films touches on the themes of superpowers that allowed people to survive and be reborn as epic heroes even from Hell. Moreover, the Plague theme, which is drawn in the film The Physician, also sharply and frighteningly rises in all these movies. The theme of the Plague is still dark, ominous, and frightening.
Finally, another theme that comes up sharply throughout the film is forbidden love and passion, condemned and punished by society. For example, similar movies are Hands Touch, The Shape of Water, Lady Macbeth, and In Secret. They also demonstrate the unprecedented power of forbidden, universally condemned love, which is attractive to the modern viewer.